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Google owns sexpornotits.com and thousands more

Seeing as Google owns pretty much everything else, why would it suprise us that they own thousands of domains?

Pingdom has done what they do best (ping of course!) and compiled a giant list of all the domains owned (or merely pointed) by Google.

Some of my favorites….

• gmailblows.com
• googleporn.com
• googlepoo.com
• googlemotherfucker.com
• mariolovespasta.com
• frooglesucks.com
• googleclusters.com
• bayareaburritos.com
• hostedbygoogle.com

Pingdom via Techcrunch

Online Nickname Googles better than realname?

Asked a Slashdotter:

“I was recently laid off, and during several of the interviews looking for a new job as a mid level IT manager, I was asked “So, I can just Google your name and find some of your work?” The answer is “yes”, but searching for my name doesn’t really bring up many results compared to searching for my online nickname which I have been using for about a decade. I am very tempted just to put that nickname on my resume. Is the professional, albeit technical, world ready for this step? Where should I put it? At the top or somewhere in the body?”

I’ve thought about this from time to time. I hate to Google my real name because there is another Nathan Strang in the world and I don’t like him or his piloting ways. Never met him and I don’t care. He’s all up in my search results, and he needs to quit. Google “Buffawhat” however and you get pretty much the same information, plus almost every social networking profile I participate in. Of course, minus the other Nathan Strang, because there is only one Buffawhat.

Your online identity is becoming more and more unique and important as the web starts to tie up its loose ends and integration is becoming more complex.

And as I let myself beknown around buffalo as “Buffawhat,” I feel my name will soon become less relevant than my moniker.

Any thoughts? how integral is your online identity to your real self?

There is no Gphone, but are there Android T-shirts?

Google’s being officially “no” at the moment about an actual Gphone, instead insisting that all the hubbub is really about Android, the open source mobile platform that the’ve put together.

Today was the release of an early look of the SDK, which when released in full in 2008, will allow anyone to develop complete full functioning programs for the Android platform. Along with this, google dropped a few more videos, highlighting a first look at the software in the works.

Those Android guys are really smart cookies, however video presenters they aren’t. No matter, because a few coders were seen wearing Android T-shirts, which forgave them any faults. That shirt is going to be the ultimate geek gift for Christmas (besides the XO, of course) if anyone can get their hands on this.

• Android @Google Code
• Open handset Alliance

Introducing Android from Google, your new mobile overlords, err, saviors

For the record, this isn’t ALL from Google, thirty-four companies have come together to help develop the first globally open, comprehensible mobile OS platform. They are the Open Handset Alliance, and the project is called Android.

Stay tuned for the breakdown after this introduction from a few of the co-creators. Notice the abundance of handsome bears collaborating in this video, this has to be a good thing, eh?

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